Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who crashed his small plane into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas, was part of a growing, violent anti-tax and anti-government movement that has become increasingly alarming to law enforcement agencies. Stack, who torched his home Thursday morning before setting out on his …

You know, I’ve been racking my brain thinking of what you get someone for a one-year anniversary gift. I mean, this being the first anniversary of the big stimulus bill, I feel obliged to do something for the president – but what? After all, he’s the president. The guy’s got …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Strapped for Cash Democratic pollster Celinda Lake says Martha Coakley’s Massachusetts Senate campaign failed to commission any polls in the weeks leading up to last week’s special election because it did not have enough money. Lake tells CNN that Coakley asked national …

Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, former New York Times editor Howell Raines accuses Fox News of sabotaging Obamacare and waging a jihad against the Obama administration. Raines writes: “Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on [Fox News for conducting] a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — …

When you think menstrual cycle, you don’t exactly think open conversation. Two authors are out to change that. Elissa Stein and Susan Kim, authors of “Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation,” decided to write a book about the history and taboos of women’s periods when Stein was too embarrassed to …

I want to tell you about a headline the other day on another news network that caught my eye. The banner on the bottom of the screen said: “Papers, please: Law makes it crime to be illegal immigrant.” This is how MSNBC summarized the new law in Arizona, designed to …

Imagine rolling around naked in crisp, high thread count sheets. Picture bathing in natural springs, warm water surrounding you, bubbling against your skin. Envision basking in the sun with nothing between you and its warming rays. It’s funny … we wear our skin all the time, yet we rarely spend …

Many people have been hard on Attorney General Eric Holder. Whether it’s his fear of calling terrorists “terrorists,” his glib attacks on Arizona or letting armed thugs off the hook in a voter intimidation case, there’s a sense that Holder is a dude with a score to settle against a …

A week after the 9/11 attacks, a young Muslim at the University of South Alabama told the school’s newspaper it was “difficult to believe a Muslim could have done this.” Now, eight years later, he is professing to launch attacks himself and calling on others to join the fight, as …

The Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll out Monday has President Obama falling below 50 percent in job approval. The number is now 49 percent. The health care approval rating is 41 percent; 56 percent oppose. So obviously the president is having trouble. This week negotiations begin with Iran, which continues to …